GLOBAL VOICES INSTITUTE

Program Overview:

The Global Voices Institute brings together young American, Israeli, and Palestinian teens for a powerful experience of volunteering and peacebuilding. The program is designed to activate and develop in participants a commitment to serving humanity through connecting with local refugee communities and service providers in New Haven. Teens explore the connections between service, peace, and religious practice. Service-Learning participants engage in intensive, hands-on service projects, speech writing, faith-based exchanges, dialogue sessions on the basic dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and field trips to arts and diplomacy sites in New York City and Connecticut.    

Participants spend their time volunteering with IRIS (Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services), helping assist the agency with moving newly arrived families into their homes, processing donations, teaching English lessons, and mentoring youth. Participants engage with Yale University student leaders, meet with diplomats at the United Nations Headquarters, and tour the 9/11 Memorial and Museum with youth interns from our partner Voices of 9/11.

Program Locations and Dates:

The program is held at the Eastern Medditerranian International School in Ramat Hasharon, Israel and is conducted in a rural-urban environment.

Global Voices Institute for 15-16 year olds, Ramat Hasharon, Israel  

August 2 - 8, 2021

For more information on how to apply to the Global Voices Institute, please visit the Apply page of our website. If you have any questions about this program, please write us an email at peace@jerusalempeacebuilders.org.

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